Presentation from the Commonwealth Digital Broadcasting Switchover Forum 2015 by Michele Coat Degert

1. Digital Switchover status across
the world
Michèle Coat Degert, ITU/BR/BCD

2. Statistics on DSO- examples
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• Africa
• Completed in Republic of Rwanda
• Ongoing in Botswana, Cameroon, Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, Tanzania
• Arab Countries
• Completed in the United Arab Emirates
• Ongoing in Algeria, Bahrein, Oman
• Europe & CIS countries
• Completed in western Europe
• Ongoing in Eastern Europe and CIS Countries
Source ITU database

3. Statistics on DSO- examples
• Americas
• Completed in North America (Full power stations USA & Canada)
• Ongoing in Brazil (2018), Argentina, Chile & Colombia(2019), Mexico,
Suriname(2015)
Note: in Colombia, the DTT coverage already reaches 63% of the population
Tijuana in Mexico was the first city In Latin America To Switch To Digital TV
• Asia Pacific
• Completed in Australia, Japan, Korea, New Zealand
• Ongoing in India, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Myanmar, Papua New
Guinea, Thailand
Note: Korea & Japan are UHDTV
Pioneers with trials ongoing
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Source ITU database

4. The ongoing work of ITU-D and ITU-R
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• Council 2014, 7 May, ITU-R Operational plan for 2015-2018
– Comments from Kenya:
the introduction of digital broadcasting is a key issue that needs to be
addressed by policy-makers and that it would be important for ITU to
provide an analogue to digital switchover stocktaking for assisting the
Member States in their migration process.
• Beta version available since September 2014
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• Group of BDT and BR experts for preparing the first version
• Designing the structure of the database and selecting tool for
capturing and displaying the information
• Collecting information from relevant surveys, questionnaires
of the ITU-D and ITU-R and other sources
• Entering information to the database

5. Public Website
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Data Miner
Figures
Summary
Country Profiles

6. Website features
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7. Data Management
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Database
ITU Administration
Countries Administrations
Website
Country
Digital Switch Over
Plan
Documents
Workshops
Websites

8. Data Management
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• Access to the Public web Site:
http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Spectrum-Broadcasting/Pages/DSO/Default.aspx
• Direct access to the Database
http://www.itu.int/net4/ITU-D/CDS/gq/META/ASO/index.asp
• A Circular Letter soon to be sent to all administrations
• For any help:
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1st step

9. The UHF band in Africa
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• Future is mobile broadband
• Great interest in the 700 and 800 MHz for the Mobile.
• Africa & Arab countries already use the 800 MHz band for mobile
services related to governmental applications
• 470 – 694 MHz for DTT
• Steps already taken to facilitate the relocation of
DTT below 694 MHz
• Africa is the 1st Region having finished and accomplished the
planning of full 4 layers on national coverage basis in the 470-694
MHz band
• 87% finished the whole procedure of article 4 of the GE06
Agreement
• Similar efforts in other parts of the world

10. BR actions at the end of the
transition Period – CR 375
• After the end of the transition period, the Bureau will carry
out the following actions with respect to the entries in the
analogue Plan according to provision No. 12.6 of the GE06
Agreement:
• The analogue Plan entries shall be canceled.
• Provision No. 4.1 of Article 4, referring to the modification of the
analogue Plan, will cease to apply.
• The Plan remarks with respect to analogue assignments will be
deleted.
• Actions concerning the MIFR (RoP clarifying 11.50)
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11. BR actions at the end of the transition
period – Rule of Procedure
• The RoP, clarifying the application of 11.50 of the RR, recently
adopted, will be used to:
• Send to administrations the list of their recorded analog assignments
in the MIFR with a deadline to reply
• In case of no reply, the Bureau will delete the entries.
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12. End of transition Period
in the VHF band
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• Article 12 of the GE06 Agreement- End of
Transition Period in the VHF Band- 17 June
2020
List of the countries: Algeria (People's Democratic Republic of), Burkina Faso, Cameroon (Republic of), Congo (Republic of
the), Côte d'Ivoire (Republic of), Egypt (Arab Republic of), Gabonese Republic, Ghana, Guinea (Republic of), Iran (Islamic
Republic of), Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of), Mali (Republic of), Morocco (Kingdom of), Mauritania (Islamic Republic of),
Nigeria (Federal Republic of), Syrian Arab Republic, Sudan (Republic of the), Chad (Republic of), Togolese Republic, Tunisia,
Yemen (Republic of).
For the following administrations which were not present at RRC-06, namely Benin (Republic of), Central African Republic,
Eritrea, Ethiopia (Federal Democratic Republic of), Guinea-Bissau (Republic of), Equatorial Guinea (Republic of), Liberia
(Republic of), Madagascar (Republic of), Niger (Republic of the), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sao Tome and Principe
(Democratic Republic of), Sierra Leone and Somali Democratic Republic, the date of the end of the transition period in the
VHF band (174-230 MHz) is 17 June 2020 at 0001 hours UTC, unless any of the aforementioned administrations
communicates to the Bureau during the 90-day period from the end of RRC-06 that it selects 17 June 2015 at 0001 hours
UTC.

13. Thank you
For your attention
michele.coat@itu.int
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